For many first-time game developers, selling 1.3 million copies of their first game in 90 days would be a major accomplishment. For Kingdoms of Amalur developer 38 Studios, though, that sales performance wasn't enough to pay back sizable loan guarantees from the state of Rhode Island, or to prevent the company from having to lay off all 379 staffers in the state and at Maryland-based subsidiary Big Huge Games late yesterday.

The layoffs effectively end one of the most prominent experiments in direct state support for game development in the country. Rhode Island had to issue $75 million in bonds to help attract the studio, founded by former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling, from its original home in Maynard, Mass., on the promise that the move would create hundreds of jobs in the state.

I can now confirm that Duke Nukem Forever is one of the biggest failures of all time. just a tots turd, even at $3 I feel ripped off.

I figured that was a steaming pile, even at $3. How long did it take them to make that steaming dump? 10 years? They must of smoked a crap ton of pot during those years, cause they clearly did not work on the game.

How the Humble Bundle works is you pay whatever you want for the bundle (even $0.01 if you're a dick). You get direct, DRM free, cross platform (Mac, Windows, Linux) downloads of the games as well as each game's soundtrack in FLAC and mp3 format.

Pay at least $1, and you get steam keys for each game as well. Pay at least as much or more than the average (currently $7.82), and you get another game in the bundle, Bastion.

The money is split between the developers of the games, Humble Bundle, Inc., the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and the Child's Play charity. Instead of the set 50% developer/40% EFF + Child's Play/10% Humble Bundle, you can also customize how much of your money you want to go to each developer / charity / foundation, etc.

I'll probably get it, thinking I'll go with $10-15. Several games I've been interested in. Amnesia is supposed to be one of the scariest games of all time, and Bastion looks really fun. LIMBO has an amazing looking art style. All that + soundtracks + plays on every OS + supports indie developers + money to charity seems like a no brainer.

How the Humble Bundle works is you pay whatever you want for the bundle (even $0.01 if you're a dick). You get direct, DRM free, cross platform (Mac, Windows, Linux) downloads of the games as well as each game's soundtrack in FLAC and mp3 format.

Pay at least $1, and you get steam keys for each game as well. Pay at least as much or more than the average (currently $7.82), and you get another game in the bundle, Bastion.

The money is split between the developers of the games, Humble Bundle, Inc., the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and the Child's Play charity. Instead of the set 50% developer/40% EFF + Child's Play/10% Humble Bundle, you can also customize how much of your money you want to go to each developer / charity / foundation, etc.

I'll probably get it, thinking I'll go with $10-15. Several games I've been interested in. Amnesia is supposed to be one of the scariest games of all time, and Bastion looks really fun. LIMBO has an amazing looking art style. All that + soundtracks + plays on every OS + supports indie developers + money to charity seems like a no brainer.